Jodi's Blog

Did you ever wonder how people who exist on a diet of mainly processed foods can be both overweight and malnourished at the same time? Despite overly abundant calories, people who live off of boxed macaroni and cheese,…

Remember the Cyprus banking crisis in March when their cash-strapped government appropriated money from bank savings accounts? ''Thank goodness it can't happen here,'' we smugly told ourselves. But it can, and it has.

Last December, the federal government rushed legislation through Parliament that meant banks had to transfer depositors' money to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission from any accounts that were deemed ''inactive'' for…